What is Meadology?

All things mead. Explore the mysteries and magic of mead, through fun and fascinating articles, videos, interviews, infographics, facts and folklore. It’s not just the world of mead, but the world that mead inspires!

MOVIE

Witness the inception of the first feature documentary on all things mead, featuring mead-makers, historians and enthusiasts from all around the world. If you’d like to become a part of the project, be sure to contact us!

TV SHOW

Travel the world with us, as we visit meaderies all across the globe and tell the stories behind the bottle, in Masters of Mead – the first mead-crawl TV show!

WEB SERIES

Gain knowledge and stay connected to the latest and greatest in mead culture and community through our awesome, short-form web series, Mead Moments!

In wine there is truth, but in mead there is life.

- Meadology | 2015 -

What is Mead?

Mead is the ancestor of all fermented beverages, dating back to at least 7000 BC, predating wine, beer, vodka and countless other libations. Made from fermenting honey, water and yeast, its simple composition means that today’s mead, unlike other alcohols, is an almost identical approximation of what our ancestors drank in their houses, meadhalls and temples.

Consumed by ancient Greeks, Romans, Scandinavians, Poles, Aztecs, Chinese, Egyptians, and the world entire, mead was once considered to be as valuable as gold. Deemed to have been descended from the gods themselves, “ambrosia” as it was oft-called, mead was regarded as a heavenly gift, the source of knowledge, the life and light of the world.

From dry to sweet and even sparkling, there are at least 40 internationally recognized varieties of mead throughout the world, with hundreds of meaderies sprouting across the globe. The fabled “nectar of the gods,” seemingly cast aside for centuries, is currently undergoing a second renaissance the world over.

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